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Here’s a little story: Spencer O’Brien grew up in Vancouver Island, which has two mountains. She started her skiing career when she was two years old and then, when she was 11, her dad gave her the choice of either starting to ski race or starting to snowboard. Luckily, Spencer’s older sister, Megan, wanted to snowboard, and since Spencer wanted to be like her, she did too.

Now, almost 15 years later, one could say that this wasn’t a bad call. After all, the 25 year-old Canadian is the slopestyle champion of the World Snowboarding Championships in Oslo 2012. Plus, she’s won 2013’s 6 Star Burton US Open and in 2011/2012 she was on top of the 6 Star O’Neill Evolution podium. Not to mention a ton of other podium places at X Games as well as 6 Star World Snowboard Tour events, of course.

Spencer is one of the world’s best female slopestyle snowboarders and one of the hottest contenders for Olympic metal in 2014. Anything else? Absolutely. Her favorite place to shred is her home resort Whistler, she likes sweet popcorn more than the salty stuff and she’s really into baking.